Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
OSCAR WILDEDeath must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
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I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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